A Promise of Empires: Chapter 9
'What do you mean I like Victoria? No I don't. No I-- Shut up. Shut the hell up. You don't know what you're talking about. Anyway I'm taking her shopping later.'
Ms. Psyri Oran's Prawn Shop! A perfect illegal shop for all your illegal engineering needs. No colony girls allowed.
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more skyborn hidden talent headcanons
Flamingo: you can’t kill them via salt poisoning
Macaw: pattern recognition/they can immediately make tesselation patterns even with their eyes closed
Gull: good at running (with legs). you also can’t kill them via salt poisoning
Osprey: extremely good balance. if they catch colds they become a normal amount of balanced
Heron: extremely good reaction time
Swallow: they have demetrace that’s enough. Fr though, they’ve memorized Moh’s hardness scale, and can measure specific gravity just by holding a rock, which i think scientists are lying about. like i think they just made that up.
Hummingbird: superspeed/no negative effects after sugar intake
Quail: if they hate you hard enough they can kidney fail you
Quetzal: they can see shrimp colors
Crow: fucking around and finding out
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What’s the moyle fam up to as of late
if i told you it would spoil the reunion, but they’re really happy right now
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Just gonna go off on a rant about tarnished yet again just ignore this post if you don’t wanna know.
But basically everyone saying Clarke should really call the cops and get Lexa help are missing a very crucial point. And that’s the fact that Lexa doesn’t want to. Say Clarke calls the cops, they show up at the house, and Lexa is too scared to say anything and just goes “no I’m absolutely fine,” and doesn’t tell on Michael out of fear and well that’s just what’s ingrained into her.
Then what happens? Two things. 1. Michael gets even more angry at her because she must have said something to someone and made him look bad so he punishes her, and 2. Lexa stops trusting Clarke. She will know Clarke did it out of good intentions but she did something Lexa asked her numerous times not to, and in turn led to Lexa getting hurt even more. Clarke wouldn’t be able to forgive herself for doing that to Lexa and Lexa would never be able to trust Clarke again about anything let alone ever open up to her again.
And Clarke is a smart person. She knows this. She knows that if lexa isn’t ready to talk about it to the authorities, cops showing up at her place will only make things worse for her. And she also knows that’s exactly how she’s going to lose Lexa because Lexa will only ever see her again as yet another person she can’t trust, and yet another person who thinks they know what’s best for her more than herself.
And where will Clexa be then?????
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It really dawned on me watching episode 17, just how important this sequence of events is to Kabru and Laios' relationship, and how. Well. That's for a different post. I want to keep this one free of spoilers. (Certified Safe For Anime Only™)(There are spoilers for episode 17, tho. Obviously.)
Kabru's main concern has been, at least in part, revealed. He wants to figure out if Laios is capable of defeating the dungeon, and, if so, if Laios can be trusted with the power that might confer. The answer to his first question is simple. Yes. If anyone can defeat the dungeon, it's Laios.
The second question is where things get interesting. Can Laios be trusted with power?
In the aftermath of Laios' first fight with Toshiro, Kabru learns that while Laios has no particular respect for the law or conventional wisdom, he does have the humility to consider that his judgment might be flawed if he encounters conflict with someone he respects.
That is the face of a man taking notes, and I think he's making a cautious mark in Laios' favor. Laios doesn't really understand Toshiro's opinion, but he's listening.
Then, in the fight with the Falin-Dragon chimera, Kabru voices dissent—disgust, even—with Laios and Marcille's priorities.
You can practically see the Dragon Age style approval rating drop. Kabru disapproves. Minus fifteen hearts. If it had ended like this, I think Kabru would have lost all interest in Laios. Someone who would sacrifice a dozen lives out of sentiment can't be trusted.
Laios' response, and the way it builds on Kabru's earlier observation, is crucial.
He listened. And even better, he didn't listen blindly. He applied critical thought to Kabru's argument. What Kabru hears from him isn't just "I'm sorry, you were right," but also, "I understand and respect your position and priorities, and here's a very good argument for why killing what I still consider to be my sister is not in our best interest."
He processed Kabru's criticism and came to his own conclusions, and he did it fast. Not only that, but he's right. Kabru hadn't considered the potential consequences of killing the chimera.
Laios proved in this one exchange that he 1) isn't blinded by either his pride or his prejudice, 2) has the strength of character to not just fall back and surrender to someone else's judgment when he's uncertain, and 3) is smart enough to tactically outhink Kabru.
This is why Kabru is so invested in Laios liking him that he forces himself to eat the harpy omlette. This is why Kabru takes Laios' hand and makes sure he knows he wants to see him again. He doesn't understand Laios, and he still has strong reservations about him. Laios' interest in monsters scares him. But Laios has proved to Kabru that he might be capable of being the person Kabru needs him to be.
Top Ten Pictures Of The Moment He Won You Over (Taken Just Before Disaster).
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the hardest part of writing these longer stories is just.
trying not to spoil parts of it just bc i want to assure ppl that there is a method to my madness.
that it will get better and i'm writing these scenes this way very intentionally.
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@leovilweek Day 7-ish: Gala
I'M LATE BUT IT'S FINALLY HERE.
I had so much fun with this ship week and it was really cool seeing what others created!!
The pose is from here.
More under the cut:
+ me being shamelessly self-indulgent by adding my other twst ships
++ clean version of pt 1
+++ flat colours for pt 2 because I like how it looks
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